Senior Strategic Partnership Manager Jobs in Puerto Rico

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The Director, Corporate Services Sourcing is a strategic leader responsible for building and scaling a best-in-class, Corporate Services team.

This role leads the Sourcing teams dedicated primarily to supporting Travel, M&E, Marketing, Professional Services, HR, and International Sourcing.

In this role, you will lead teams to define and execute a multi-year sourcing strategy that delivers measurable value—driving margin expansion, cost discipline, and enterprise scalability—while partnering closely with Technology, Finance, Legal, and executive leadership.

This leader will elevate sourcing as a strategic enterprise capability, shaping investment decisions, optimizing supplier portfolios, and embedding governance across the end-to-end Source-to-Pay lifecycle.

• Lead teams to create and execute a multi-year sourcing strategy aligned to company growth, product roadmap, and financial targets
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on all Corporate Services investments and supplier strategies
• Build and lead a high-performing sourcing team, driving capability development and organizational scale

• Drive proactive, strategic insights through a Category Management structure
• Lead team to develop sourcing strategies across all corporate services categories
• Drive total cost of ownership (TCO) optimization, multi-year commercial roadmaps, and licensing strategies
• Deliver measurable outcomes across:
• o P&L savings
• o Cost avoidance
• o Working capital optimization

• Lead and support complex enterprise negotiations with key suppliers
• Establish and manage executive-level supplier relationships
• Enable supplier-backed innovation aligned to business priorities

• Support the modernization of procurement through automation, analytics, and AI-enabled insights
• Strengthen alignment across Procurement and enterprise functions

• Implement data-driven spend visibility and forecasting, leveraging AI-enabled analytics where appropriate
• Lead procurement transformation initiatives across tools, processes, and operating model

• Establish a category-led operating model across Corporate Services
• Rationalize Corporate Services supplier portfolios and eliminate duplication across categories
• Deliver measurable savings and cost optimization aligned to margin targets
• Implement structured governance across all Corporate Services spend and renewals
• Advance procurement digitization (CLM, intake-to-PO automation, P2P optimization)
• Strengthen cloud cost management through FinOps partnership

• 7+ years of progressive experience in Sourcing / Procurement, including across categories noted
• 5+ years in S&P leadership role in managing and leading Corporate Services teams
• Proven track record leading category management implementation with teams, along with enterprise negotiations and supplier strategies
• Demonstrated success driving procurement transformation and operating model improvements

• Executive presence with ability to influence C-suite and senior stakeholders
• Strong financial acumen with a focus on margin, ROI, and capital discipline
• Data-driven mindset with ability to translate analytics into actionable insights
• Proven change leader with experience scaling fast paced organizations
• Collaborative, business-oriented leader who operates as a strategic partner
• Track record of building, developing, and retaining high-performing teams

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The pay range for this position is $145,600 to $209,300. The actual base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and work location. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation. Learn more about UKG’s benefits and rewards at https://www.ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits

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